Exporting coloured text to HTML and RTF from 8.1.4

[J. Landman Gay]

Use the htmltext instead of the (plain) text:

set the htmltext of fld x to the htmltext of fld y

The rtftext would work too, both carry styling and text size info. Using 
plain text is just that, it is text without any style information.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On July 2, 2017 11:58:26 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> The problem is quite different: and this only became clear when I tested
> your script inwith my Devawriter Pro
> and outwith it in a simpler stack.
>
> The problem is that the text that becomes colourised is then moved intil
> another field, and then is exported from
> that field; during the movement from the first field to the second one
> its styling is lost:
>
> setthetextoffld "fRESULT" ofcard "ATTIC" tothetextoffld "fRESULT" ofcard
> "DEVANAGARI"
>
> setthetextSizeoffld "fRESULT" ofcard "ATTIC" tothetextSizeoffld
> "fRESULT" ofcard "DEVANAGARI"
>
> Presumably (?)  I will need a third line something like this:
>
> setthetextColoroffld "fRESULT" ofcard "ATTIC" tothetextColoroffld
> "fRESULT" ofcard "DEVANAGARI"
>
> indeed, that is what I am about to try.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
> On 7/2/17 6:24 pm, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
>> How are you trying to export the text? Works alright here with Indy 8.1.4 
>> and MacOS 10.13.
>> Sample script that works for me:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>
>>    ask file "Give your file a name:”
>>
>>    put "file:" & it into tURL
>>
>>    if char - 1 to -4 of tURL <> ".rtf" then
>>
>>      put ".rtf" after tURL
>>
>>    end if
>>
>>    put rtfText of field 1 into url tURL
>>
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Tore Nilsen
>>
>>> 2. jul. 2017 kl. 16:37 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>
>>> I like blue cheese . . .
>>>
>>> But I don't like what happens when I try to export coloured text from
>>> a field in LC 8.1.4 as the _colours_ are NOT exported.
>>>
>>> This is ODD as a while back the colours were exporting . . . .
>>>
>>> Mac OS 10.7.8,  LC 8.1.4 Indy.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
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